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The Breaking Clause

Prologue

A glimpse – or not even that – just a sliver of

that early-morning sunlight shun through the

slices between the white shutters that fell

down in front of the window. This caused the

light to scatter and fly across the room,

seeming as if an angel’s halo had been thrown

in and smashed apart into thin, long, sharp

slices of luminescence that raced across the

room with glee. Alison squinted, put her hands

in front of her face to stop the bright light

blinding her and pushed herself up so she

could swing her legs off her bed. She padded

along the blue bedroom’s, fake wool carpet to

the window where she reached upwards and

dragged the white string downwards so hard